onsdag 9 november 2011

Gamex 2011


As I mentioned in the last entry, I’ve been to Gamex this year. Sweden’s biggest gaming event were you can try out video games that hasn't been released, meet other gamers, buy figures and toys ect. It’s kinda like a small small E3 or Tokyo Game Show.










Anyway, I was there the previous year and I had a blast this year too! Most of the games I tried were from Nintendo. The games I tried were The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Mario Kart 7, Resident Evil: Revelations, Rayman Origins, SSX, Gears of War 3, Super Mario Land 3D, Luigi’s Mansion 2, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Star Fox 64 3D, Dance Central 2 for Kinect and Kirby’s Return to Dream Land.


Totamish has Pac-man fever!





Soild Snake! This big statue was the first prize in the cosplay competition
Game held. I didn't win it obviously, but it would had been cool to get it! Unfortunately, I don't know who won it.





The games I got most excited about was of course Zelda and Resident Evil, I like both of them and can’t wait ‘til I get to buy them!

In Resident Evil: Revelations the controls are much like in Resident Evil 5, which I like since I’m very used to them and it’s easy to handle. To gain the best gaming experience you should wear headphones so you can get into the scary atmosphere with the surrounding sounds and noises. Your ammo is limited; so you have to be careful to not waste bullets or save bullets and run for your life. A new interesting item you could use was a scanner that scans areas and locates items. It could be ammo, herbs and other useful things.

Of what I have seen (expect for the distasteful female characters) and played so far I liked it. The gameplay will at least be fun, but I’m unsure if the story’s going to be any good. I doubt it, since I wasn’t very fond of the story in RE5. :P But we’ll see!





Zelda was fun to try as well! You could choose different demos, but I only played one which was the dungeon part (my favorite parts of Zelda games). And all I can say it looks promising. I like it that you could swing Link’s sword in any direction with the Wii-remote. I’m looking forward to get my hands on it. I have already reserved a limited edition for me, wiehoo! :3


I got a photo with Pixelninja as Zelda from the new game. ^^


Yeah, and that was pretty much all I got to say. Gamex was awesome as last year! I’ll share some more photos here of cosplayers and my friends.



Craziest mix you can find?! Albert Wesker (a.k.a. Spettan) and my brother as Fox McCloud.



Claire Redfield (a.k.a.
Emelie) found her brother and bought him for a good prize!


Ashley Graham (a.k.a. Hanna) and Claire playing some 3DS!








One of the pictures we took there was this lil’ girl who looked at us with really big eyes. I don’t know if she was afraid of us or fascinated, maybe a mix of both, but she was so cute! Her dad pushed her forward to us so she could take pictures with us. She just kept staring at us and seemed shy, didn’t say a word. Unfortunately my boyfriend couldn’t take a good photo of us, but I’ll never forget her cute face. ^^


tisdag 8 november 2011

Cosplay of Jade from Mortal Kombat 9

I never would have thought that my next cosplay after Krystal would be something like this. I blame it all on my friend Hanna. After she and Lisette cosplayed as Mileena and Kitana on a convent named Närcon this year, she suggested that we should go as a group of Mortal Kombat characters to Gamex. I decided to join for fun, the more the merrier right? ;) And the girl character I like the most in MK is Jade.






It's not because she's green I chose her? Naaaah…


I did this cosplay mostly just for fun. It’s not the best cosplay I’ve done I think and there are things I could have done better and more careful, but the results looks pretty good for not struggling too hard, haha. X) I’m very happy with her gloves. :D The boots are bought and I just remade them to look like Jade’s by painting them and made her jewels out of clay. I “cheated” with the golden parts on the costume by coloring them instead of buying gold fabric. I blame it for being lazy and cheap, besides I had a lot of paint left after I did Krystal. The costume didn’t cost me so much, about 400 kr (€ 44). You can see on the last photo in this entry I colored myself brownish just like Jade is in the game. First, I will show you some progress pictures!







And ta-daaah, the results!


In my opinion I don’t make the best Jade because I’m way too short to be someone as tall as her. XD I looked hilarious among my MK-group and they all called me “lil’ Jade”. But then again, this was just for fun and to join the group.

We made a cool gang and there were many people at the event that took photos of us. We even got interviewed by PowerGamer, GamingGrannar, Svampriket and Press2play (Check out the interviews by clicking on the links. It’s in Swedish though). I never thought we would get so much attention. Really nice that many people liked us. :) We were supposed to have Lisette as Kitana in our group, but unfortunately she couldn’t come. We’ll definitely get together again and take some more photos.

Emelie as Skarlet, Hanna as Mileena, me as Jade and Spettan as Sonya Blade.

Will tell more about the event I went to later!